Nicosia Master Plan venue, within the crossing area (Ledras – Lokmaci) will be opening its doors to the ‘Imagining Home – Between the Walls’ exhibition on Friday, 4th October 2024.
The exhibition Imagining Home – Between the Walls explores the concept of “home” in Nicosia, and aims to weave together the past and present to generate new, more hopeful visions, offering an opportunity to think about the future and the dreamed house to come.
Imagining Home – Between the Walls will be open to the public until October 31st 2024 Wednesdays to Fridays: 5pm – 9pm, Saturdays: 11am – 7pm.
The exhibition seeks to engage Cypriots in a dialogue about the resonance of the word “home” and its connection to questions of injustice and stories of displacement.
Artists:
Efi Savvides
- Visual artist and art educator, founder of Artstudio Laboratories.
- Extensive work on violence and exclusion experienced by minority groups, immigrants, and refugees in Cyprus.
- Presents new photography and video work from her extensive documentation of a single refugee family.
Nafia Akdeniz
- Poet, Ethnographer, and Researcher.
- Conducts ethnographic research on Varosha Narratives, as Mnemonic Resistance.
- Presents a poetry-based interactive project, “We Are Not Ghosts”, a poetic sound walk into Varosha public space memory.
Julie Gauthron
- French artist and designer, member of Collectif Habitante.
- Creates models and wireframe sculptures of houses, generating a typology of fragile forms as shelters.
- Creates two life-size metal wire drawings of houses, made in rebar.
Sümer Erek
- Multidisciplinary artist deeply influenced by his experiences of displacement, trauma, and a longing for new futures.
- Creates modular structures made of found and cast materials.
- Reflects the psychological impact of a long history of enforced loss and displacement.
Anaïs LLobet
- French author, documentary filmmaker, and AFP journalist.
- Published a novel based on the historical context of Cyprus in 2022.
- Conducts interviews with refugees and UNFICYP peacekeepers to develop a collaborative work on what making home far away from home means.
Alessandro Vincentelli
- International curator and producer based in the UK and Athens, Greece.
- Worked as curator and creative director for the international Art and Ecology Triennial exhibition, EKO8, in Maribor, Slovenia, in 2021.
